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Always a cool feeling to run into a hot upcoming car, in this case the 2014 BMW M3, and catching it undergoing testing before release. Spyphotos like these get big attention as they show off upcoming design elements. So what can we see here? Well, first of all the color on the car is Jerez Black which looks like it will be making a return on the F80 M3 being a popular color on the E9X M3 series. Shots of the brake disc show some very large vented rotors that hopefully have some high end calipers on them this time around.

The design of the car does not differ much from what we all expect but the classic aggressive M3 fenders are there thankfully. A more aggressive front bumper along with rear diffuser sporting quad tips round out the look. Overall, BMW is playing it very safe styling wise.

Reflections in the window make it difficult to see much of the interior although a dual clutch trans can clearly be made out along with tri-color M stitching on the wheel. Photographer stated redline was 7k rpm. So much for that high revving M philosophy eh?

The shot underneath the car shows what appears to a fairly large tranny cooler (hopefully not sharing the same cooler as the manual as BMW did with the E9X generation) as well as a big and likely heavy rear muffler that aftermarket exhaust manufacturers will be promptly ditching.

Great set of spyphotos and a big thank you to BimmerBoost member @bmw335iguy for capturing the car.

You need to watermark the pics.... Good stuff! Did you look for coolers in the wheel wells or front? The car looks small to me(a good thing!) did it seem smaller in person than a e90?

I didn't think to look in the wheel wells, but did look in the front lower grill area where the fmic is on the n54 and it had what looked like an extra radiator perhaps for the air to water intercooler? Also looked like there was an oil cooler inbetween the radiater and extra intercooler radiater thing.

So I'm riding into work this morning and Lo and behold I see a camo'd out BMW driving in the opposite direction. So I quickly turned around and found where he parked and was able to get some photos. I'm on my phone now and can't resize the pics but if someone wants I can text you the photos so you can resize them, or ill do it tonight when I get home. It was a dct, redline was 7k rpms. Car sounded good when he drove away.

Always a cool feeling to run into a hot upcoming car, in this case the 2014 BMW M3, and catching it undergoing testing before release. Spyphotos like these get big attention as they show off upcoming design elements. So what can we see here? Well, first of all the color on the car is Jerez Black which looks like it will be making a return on the F80 M3 being a popular color on the E9X M3 series. Shots of the brake disc show some very large vented rotors that hopefully have some high end calipers on them this time around.

The design of the car does not differ much from what we all expect but the classic aggressive M3 fenders are there thankfully. A more aggressive front bumper along with rear diffuser sporting quad tips round out the look. Overall, BMW is playing it very safe styling wise.

Reflections in the window make it difficult to see much of the interior although a dual clutch trans can clearly be made out along with tri-color M stitching on the wheel. Photographer stated redline was 7k rpm. So much for that high revving M philosophy eh?

The shot underneath the car shows what appears to a fairly large diffcooler as well as a big and likely heavy rear muffler that aftermarket exhaust manufacturers will be promptly ditching.

Great set of spyphotos and a big thank you to BimmerBoost member @bmw335iguy for capturing the car.

I tried getting one but the glare and reflection didn't allow me to unfortunately... The tach looked very similar to the one in my 335 so I think it just stopped at 7k. I don't know if these pre-production models have the interior finished yet, because for an m3 it didn't look anything special? I didn't see anything in the gauge cluster that looked like it would light up the tach similar to the e46 and e90 m3's. All the gauge cluster had was a gas gauge, mph, tach, and oil temp. Seats looked similar to e90 sport seats, although I've never seen e90 m3 seats.

I talked to my friend that's a Master Tech at BMW of Santa Barbara and he said it had to have come from the Engineering Building at the VPC or vehicle processing center in Oxnard. And that they must have been doing some testing. According to him the Engineering Building is where they work on McLaren F1's and is the only authorized repair/service facility in the US.

I tried getting one but the glare and reflection didn't allow me to unfortunately... The tach looked very similar to the one in my 335 so I think it just stopped at 7k. I don't know if these pre-production models have the interior finished yet, because for an m3 it didn't look anything special? I didn't see anything in the gauge cluster that looked like it would light up the tach similar to the e46 and e90 m3's. All the gauge cluster had was a gas gauge, mph, tach, and oil temp. Seats looked similar to e90 sport seats, although I've never seen e90 m3 seats.

I talked to my friend that's a Master Tech at BMW of Santa Barbara and he said it had to have come from the Engineering Building at the VPC or vehicle processing center in Oxnard. And that they must have been doing some testing. According to him the Engineering Building is where they work on McLaren F1's and is the only authorized repair/service facility in the US.